1/4 the country was swampland before Saddam screwed that up, another quarter is snowy mountains, and two of the mideast's biggest rivers flow right through the place, although Turkey's in the process of gobbling those up.
If the damn fools would stop blowing up their own water and power plants, they'd have plenty of water.
So, it's a free country - you can sit on your ass and blame it on The Man or start your own distribution system. As others in this thread point out, you can do this yourself. THAT's the point of the "long tail" argument: "Quit Whining and Do It Yourself Online.".
Amazon seems to have a two-tiered system that brings out the worst in the long tail principle: Flawless, reliable service for fairly common items - I have returned several shipments or gotten them late and I have never had trouble working things out, and because I live on the west coast I usually get stuff in three days or less. Then, a low budget operation outsourced to who knows where for the "long tail" stuff.
FedEx did the same thing when they acquired RPS and changed it to FedEx Ground. A top-shelf service with premium prices that picks up anywhere and delivers on time anywhere, and a shambling low-priced service for those of us not living in Central Business Districts (that's still cheaper and better than UPS though.)
Any country using the chip will instantly see that the chip has been tampered with, just like you know an SSL web site has been tampered with then the certificate you get doesn't match the signature at the CA. The face in the chip won't match the face on the passport, and you'll have some splainin' to do, hopefully in a country with due process.
If they don't read the chip, then yes they can forge your picture just like they do now.
Like Bruce Parens said, the only risk is that that guy walking by you on the street with the backpack with the radio antenna coming out of it is scanning your passport, and then the data is of no more use than the cookies that/. put on your browser today. I suppose they could aggregate the information to track you movement, assuming a worldwide cabal of dedicated passport war-scanners. If you are THAT paranoid, might as well stay at home with your tinfoil hat on.
What would be in the passport besides a long random number? Most other countries (not counting failed states) will be doing this exact same thing in a few years.
- I mean it doesn't have personal information, even if decoded, so what use is it to anyone, except that it identifies you with a big random number like a cookie does.
Although I do hear there were plans to put this into the data in clear text:
"YOU'LL BE SORY THAT YOU MESSED WITH THE U.S.of A. 'CAUSE WE'LL PUT A BOOT IN YOUR ASS IT'S THE AMERICAN WAY"
OK, maybe the case isn't such a bad idea after all.
I know everyone understands PKI, right, but isn't this is equivalent to someone trying to spoof any random SSL-enabled web site with a CA_signed cert? (assuming the gov't doesn't screw up.) OF COURSE you can break it or spoof it, if you break the CA.
It isn't designed to guarantee that the photo and the chip match, we can look at your face for that. It's to weed out the paranoid asshats who've tinkered with them, or, worse, have fake passports. Just like your browser throws up a warning if it can't figure out your SSL certificate.
I think it's a reasonable tradeoff - your right to hide your identity, your right to make a fake passport, my right to make sure La Migra gives you an extra probe or two when you reenter the country.
- This is a telco dungeon in a facility the size of the Pentagon, or a big city CO.
- It's all one 10,000-meter patch cable and a really bad job of slack management.
Geez, it probably takes less than an hour to trace out a connection, and you probably only yank out 2 or 3 subscribers in the process. Imagine if it was punched down.
I'd be scared shitless of the ones in the cargo bay in checked-in luggage, especially now that no one can carry the usual huge pile of crap into the cabin, or the pallet-load of battery packs in cargo. Even the ones stuffed in the overhead bins are more dangerous than the ones on your tray table, which if it catches on fire, will quickly be tossed hot-potato style to a waiting army of flight attendants with extinguishers, trained to deal with the situation.
Sounds like defensive lawyering.
And there are substatial risks with wiring each seat with outlets, whether low voltage DC or mains AC.
I dunno about the latest edition, but a large percentage of people I interview have a computer science degrees, are total dumbasses, and don't know a regular expression from their own ass.
The more advanced the CS degree, sometimes, the more significant the dumassery.If you don't know what a regular expression is, at least admit to using a cookbook.
It's the power supply not the CPU that makes the difference. My power supply separates the electrons made fomr non-renewable sources and returns those to the mains for the rest of the ignorant world to use, and then uses only the ones generated by renewable sources.
I also contribute to reforestation efforts in China - each $50 funds a slave laborer who can plant 100 trees a day as part of his "reeducation".
I'm sure Paris and Nicole will look just fine at 50 thanks to the wonders of modern technology, but what about the rest of the US's children, who are driven one block to school, even in the best of neighborhoods, and will be fat and diabetic by the time they are 30? I'm not putting my money on increasing life expectancies especially when the fattest and most diabetic are the ones least likely to have access to top shelf medical care.
If I had kids they could play all the video games they wanted, but the hardware would be powered off deep-cycle batteries charged by a stationary bicycle. You play, you ride.
Get used to it. Perkins quit on the spot because he was in a hurry to get to the launch of his 290-foot yacht. I'd be in a hurry, too, to get the hell out of Silicon Valley if I had spent as much time there that he has. (Having a few billion in the bank would help.)
It must disappointing to view its decline from back in the Bill and Dave days, when actual smart people developing real products ran the place, and not VCs interested in sucking as much cash out of companies as possible before loading them with debt and selling them to consortiums of gullible cardiologists.
Yes, they teach that stuff in school. What they don't teach is the "culturally appropriate" stuff liks how the square root of 3 is George Washington's birthday.
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1/4 the country was swampland before Saddam screwed that up, another quarter is snowy mountains, and two of the mideast's biggest rivers flow right through the place, although Turkey's in the process of gobbling those up.
If the damn fools would stop blowing up their own water and power plants, they'd have plenty of water.
But, then I don't reflexively hate large corporations.
Gmail doesn't drop any of my other, numerous, mailing lists or subscriptions, and it's spam filtering is 100.00000% percent accurate.
I suspect there are self-righteous Net Nazis on both sides. Hang your frgaile punk ego at the door and fix it.
If the trend is anything like hard disk drives, the device should get tougher as the dimensions get smaller.
I'd hate to see one of these things throw off a blade while it's powering your iPod on the subway, though.
OK, all you Chinese people - is that funny or what?
http://www.biblegateway.com/keyword/?search=string &version1=31&searchtype=all
So, it's a free country - you can sit on your ass and blame it on The Man or start your own distribution system. As others in this thread point out, you can do this yourself. THAT's the point of the "long tail" argument: "Quit Whining and Do It Yourself Online.".
Amazon seems to have a two-tiered system that brings out the worst in the long tail principle: Flawless, reliable service for fairly common items - I have returned several shipments or gotten them late and I have never had trouble working things out, and because I live on the west coast I usually get stuff in three days or less. Then, a low budget operation outsourced to who knows where for the "long tail" stuff.
FedEx did the same thing when they acquired RPS and changed it to FedEx Ground. A top-shelf service with premium prices that picks up anywhere and delivers on time anywhere, and a shambling low-priced service for those of us not living in Central Business Districts (that's still cheaper and better than UPS though.)
Any country using the chip will instantly see that the chip has been tampered with, just like you know an SSL web site has been tampered with then the certificate you get doesn't match the signature at the CA. The face in the chip won't match the face on the passport, and you'll have some splainin' to do, hopefully in a country with due process.
/. put on your browser today. I suppose they could aggregate the information to track you movement, assuming a worldwide cabal of dedicated passport war-scanners. If you are THAT paranoid, might as well stay at home with your tinfoil hat on.
If they don't read the chip, then yes they can forge your picture just like they do now.
Like Bruce Parens said, the only risk is that that guy walking by you on the street with the backpack with the radio antenna coming out of it is scanning your passport, and then the data is of no more use than the cookies that
What would be in the passport besides a long random number? Most other countries (not counting failed states) will be doing this exact same thing in a few years.
- I mean it doesn't have personal information, even if decoded, so what use is it to anyone, except that it identifies you with a big random number like a cookie does.
Although I do hear there were plans to put this into the data in clear text:
"YOU'LL BE SORY THAT YOU MESSED WITH THE U.S.of A.
'CAUSE WE'LL PUT A BOOT IN YOUR ASS IT'S THE AMERICAN WAY"
OK, maybe the case isn't such a bad idea after all.
I know everyone understands PKI, right, but isn't this is equivalent to someone trying to spoof any random SSL-enabled web site with a CA_signed cert? (assuming the gov't doesn't screw up.) OF COURSE you can break it or spoof it, if you break the CA.
It isn't designed to guarantee that the photo and the chip match, we can look at your face for that. It's to weed out the paranoid asshats who've tinkered with them, or, worse, have fake passports. Just like your browser throws up a warning if it can't figure out your SSL certificate.
I think it's a reasonable tradeoff - your right to hide your identity, your right to make a fake passport, my right to make sure La Migra gives you an extra probe or two when you reenter the country.
to me in line at the airport?
Or at least to insure you're subjected to the "deluxe" body cavity search, just to make sure.
(RTFA)
Can we get approval for "off-label" use?
Either:
- This is a telco dungeon in a facility the size of the Pentagon, or a big city CO.
- It's all one 10,000-meter patch cable and a really bad job of slack management.
Geez, it probably takes less than an hour to trace out a connection, and you probably only yank out 2 or 3 subscribers in the process. Imagine if it was punched down.
Sincerely,
You most h'mble and o'bt s'vts,
- George Washington et. al.
I'd be scared shitless of the ones in the cargo bay in checked-in luggage, especially now that no one can carry the usual huge pile of crap into the cabin, or the pallet-load of battery packs in cargo. Even the ones stuffed in the overhead bins are more dangerous than the ones on your tray table, which if it catches on fire, will quickly be tossed hot-potato style to a waiting army of flight attendants with extinguishers, trained to deal with the situation.
Sounds like defensive lawyering.
And there are substatial risks with wiring each seat with outlets, whether low voltage DC or mains AC.
1) Do no evil.
2) Everything is beta.
Seriously, my electricity and DSL have been out more in the last 3 years than all the big web sites combined, including MySpace.
I dunno about the latest edition, but a large percentage of people I interview have a computer science degrees, are total dumbasses, and don't know a regular expression from their own ass.
The more advanced the CS degree, sometimes, the more significant the dumassery.If you don't know what a regular expression is, at least admit to using a cookbook.
It's the power supply not the CPU that makes the difference. My power supply separates the electrons made fomr non-renewable sources and returns those to the mains for the rest of the ignorant world to use, and then uses only the ones generated by renewable sources.
I also contribute to reforestation efforts in China - each $50 funds a slave laborer who can plant 100 trees a day as part of his "reeducation".
I'm sure Paris and Nicole will look just fine at 50 thanks to the wonders of modern technology, but what about the rest of the US's children, who are driven one block to school, even in the best of neighborhoods, and will be fat and diabetic by the time they are 30? I'm not putting my money on increasing life expectancies especially when the fattest and most diabetic are the ones least likely to have access to top shelf medical care.
If I had kids they could play all the video games they wanted, but the hardware would be powered off deep-cycle batteries charged by a stationary bicycle. You play, you ride.
You will get a coupon good for a free mouse pad with any purchase of Vista, and the lawyers will pocket $150 million of the $350 million.
Like BPL, just another crack-pipe dream, waiting for WiMax to come along and kick its ass down the street like the punk that it is.
I knew the Interweb boom was back again! We lose money on every transaction but we make up for it in volume!!
Now, where's my 5000 TB EMC disk array?
Get used to it. Perkins quit on the spot because he was in a hurry to get to the launch of his 290-foot yacht. I'd be in a hurry, too, to get the hell out of Silicon Valley if I had spent as much time there that he has. (Having a few billion in the bank would help.)
It must disappointing to view its decline from back in the Bill and Dave days, when actual smart people developing real products ran the place, and not VCs interested in sucking as much cash out of companies as possible before loading them with debt and selling them to consortiums of gullible cardiologists.
Yes, they teach that stuff in school. What they don't teach is the "culturally appropriate" stuff liks how the square root of 3 is George Washington's birthday.
That's, like, 1932, right?
I was messing around on a friend's boat last May and turned on the LORAN receiver. Lo and behold it displayed a set of valid coordinates.
e tail.jsp?id=314650
LORAN lives! (Well for a few more months anyway.)
http://www.gpsworld.com/gpsworld/article/articleD
And I think it is used more widely in the non-US, non-EU parts of the world.